Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund

German Gymnastics and Sports Federation
DTSB
Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund
FormationApril 1957
Dissolved1990-91 (individual organizations within the DTSB continue to exist)
HeadquartersEast Berlin
Location
Membership (1989)
3.700.000

The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB; German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR.[1]

  1. ^ Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB). In: Andreas Herbst; Winfried Ranke; Jürgen Winkler: So funktionierte die DDR. Lexikon der Organisationen und Institutionen. Bd. 1. (Rororo 6348), Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9, S. 234–243 (239–243)